In 2015, the BBC had delayed the fifth Stargazing Live series until March to coincide with the solar eclipse, but this year they’re back in their January slot and in December Brian Cox and Dara O Briain had already covered the launch and docking of the new ISS crew with British astronaut Tim Peake on board. So this time it will all be about the space station and astronauts and the program’s twitter feed has already been telling all about it – including that there will be an additional broadcast on Friday on the occasion of Tim Peake’s first spacewalk. Unfortunately, there will be only one Back to Earth after-show chat this time for the first program, probably because of all the additional broadcasts, but with four main hour-long entries this is going to be an amazing event nevertheless. The schedule for BBC2 looks like this at the moment:

Has there ever been an accident when it’s come to space walking? as watching last night’s show and the connections looked very difficult so just wondering has there been an accident and what would they have to do if it was? Thank you huge fan of show by the way

As far as I know, there have been no major spacewalking accidents on the ISS, but a couple of tools have been accidentially lost and there was the spacesuit malfunction some time ago when Luca Parmitano had his helmet full of water – that was by far the worst accident that has happened in recent times.